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Miranda Bryant / The Guardian : Lotte Rubæk, a psychologist who advises Meta on suicide prevention and self-harm, quits, accusing Meta of “turning a blind eye” to harmful content on Instagram   —  Exclusive: Psychologist accuses Meta of ‘turning a blind eye’ to posts she believes represent further danger to vulnerable women

Dozens of migrants were seen breaching the United States-Mexico border wall in Arizona over the weekend, where a video caught them crossing unimpeded and taking selfies once they got onto American soil. Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin shared the video, which was taken in Lukeville, Arizona, on Friday. It appears to show dozens of women, children and whole family units, dressed casually and in clean clothes, carrying their belongings. Several of the migrants are seen holding cellphones and celebrating their entry. The breach comes amid record illegal immigration entries under President Biden , especially in the Tucson Sector, which remains one of the busiest areas of illegal crossings. It also comes just days after U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested five child sex offenders at the southern border — at the Yuma, Tucson, El Paso, Del Rio, and Rio Grande Valley sectors — and as the FBI warned Monday of a "wide array" of dangerous threats coming from the U.S. bo...

Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal : How Elon Musk courted Don Lemon to show that X isn't a right-wing tool, as the breakup highlights Linda Yaccarino's thankless task of trying to assure brands   —  Unexpected split leaves X CEO Linda Yaccarino with another loss  —  Don Lemon got to see both sides of Elon Musk.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : LinkedIn confirms it is working on adding puzzle-based games; a researcher says it is testing ranking companies in the games based on the scores of employees   —  LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to network …

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have reached out to ex-President Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen about appearing at next week’s impeachment inquiry hearing, a source familiar with the discussions told Fox News Digital. Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is leading an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over accusations he used his position as vice president to enrich himself and his family, which both he and the White House have denied. The next hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.  COMER INVITES HUNTER BIDEN, BUSINESS ASSOCIATES TO TESTIFY PUBLICLY MARCH 20 AMID IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY Democrats on the panel hope that a potential Cohen appearance could turn the spotlight at the highly-publicized event onto Trump, according to the source.  They "believe Cohen could help focus the hearing on Donald Trump by delivering first-hand testimony on Trump’s foreign business deals while he was president," the source said. The source said Democrats think Co...

Steven Levy / Wired : Michael Seibel steps down as YC's managing director, says he did not feel disappointed when he was not tapped as CEO but would have accepted the job if offered   —  As the influential startup incubator downsizes—and navigates political pushback—managing director Michael Seibel is taking …

Georgia attorney Ashleigh Merchant claimed vindication after a Fulton County judge issued a ruling in the disqualification proceedings against District Attorney Fani Willis.   In an order Friday, Judge Scott McAfee said that Willis must either withdraw herself and her team from the 2020 election interference case or remove Wade as special prosecutor. The decision came after Merchant, on behalf of her client Michael Roman, first alleged that Willis had had an "improper" affair with Wade before hiring him to prosecute former President Trump and his 18 co-defendants in 2021.  "While we believe the court should have disqualified Willis’ office entirely, this opinion is a vindication that everything put forth by the defense was true, accurate and relevant to the issues surrounding our client's right to a fair trial. The judge clearly agreed with the defense that the actions of Willis are a result of her poor judgment and that there is a risk to the future of this case...

House Republicans are accusing President Biden of building a temporary aid port for Gaza in a bid to win back progressive voters ahead of November, and they're worried it will put American lives at risk. Biden unveiled a plan to build a temporary floating port off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians who were displaced as a result of the war between Israel and Hamas.  International groups and several nations have raised concerns about the spread of famine and disease while struggling to get food and medical aid to the population there. The initiative is expected to take several weeks, and it still remains unclear what the cost would be to taxpayers. WORLD, UN SIGNAL NO EXIT FOR CIVILIANS CAUGHT UP IN GAZA WAR: 'POLITICALLY TOXIC' Though the administration announced it would not require American troops to set foot in Gaza, lawmakers raised concerns about their proximity to the war zone. "It is clearly putting our troops in harm's way...

Kimberly Chin / Axios : Netherlands-based TheyDo, which helps companies map customer journeys, raised a $34M Series B led by Blossom Capital, bringing its total funding to about $50M   —  Exit Content Preview … - Entrepreneur Steven van Belleghem, HighSage Ventures and 20Sales also participated.

Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock called the Republican-led Laken Riley Act "smoke and mirrors" on Tuesday, accusing lawmakers of failing to do anything substantive to address the crisis at the southern border.  The legislation, which was passed in the House , would require the Department of Homeland Security to take illegal immigrants into custody if they have been charged with theft-related crimes. Warnock appeared on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" with host Joy Reid on Tuesday when he was asked about what the legislation would do to address crime.  REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN INTRODUCES ‘LAKEN RILEY ACT’   "Let me, first of all, just say that my heart goes out to this young woman’s family. Laken Riley did not deserve what happened to her," he said. "To answer your question succinctly, this is smoke and mirrors by people who are not serious." "We had a bipartisan piece of legislation in front of us. It had a lot of provisions, some provis...

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch : Waymo plans to debut its Waymo One robotaxi service in LA on March 14, gradually onboarding from a 50K+ waitlist, and in Austin commercially by the end of 2024   —  Waymo will begin offering a robotaxi service to the public in Los Angeles this week and in Austin by the end of the year …

Colorado U.S. Representative Ken Buck announced on Tuesday that he we will resign from the House by the end of next week. "It has been an honor to serve the people of Colorado’s 4th District in Congress for the past 9 years. I want to thank them for their support and encouragement throughout the years. Today, I am announcing that I will depart Congress at the end of next week," Buck wrote in his release. "I look forward to staying involved in our political process, as well as spending more time in Colorado and with my family." Buck has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since November 2014 and is currently assigned to the House Judiciary Committee and Foreign Affairs Committee. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Buck was also one of three House Republicans who opposed the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Buck previously announced he was not running for another term. His resignation will squeeze the GOP's majority even ...

Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Meta details its two new data center scale clusters, both containing 24,576 Nvidia H100 GPUs that the company is using for AI workloads like training Llama 3   —  Have been built to support AI research and development  —  Meta has shared the details of the hardware, network, storage, design …

The White House on Monday said President Biden "absolutely did not apologize" for referring to the alleged illegal immigrant killer of Georgia student Laken Riley as "an illegal" – the latest turn in a spiraling controversy over an unscripted remark at the State of the Union. "First of all, I want to be really clear about something: the president absolutely did not apologize," White House spokesperson Olivia Dalton told reporters when asked about why Biden "apologized." "There was no apology anywhere in that conversation. He did not apologize. He used a different word." Biden had been urged by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to say the name of Riley, who was killed last month, allegedly by a Venezuelan national who entered the country illegally but was paroled into the interior. BIDEN SAYS HE REGRETS USING ‘ILLEGAL’ TO DESCRIBE LAKEN RILEY MURDER SUSPECT DURING STATE OF THE UNION  "Lincoln Riley [sic]," he said, hold...

Forbes : A profile of Ryan Breslow, the founder of Bolt, whose $355M Series E in 2022 set off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with early backer Activant   —  The Silicon Valley wunderkind rode his fintech unicorn Bolt to the bank.  Then came the lawsuits and money squabbles …

Lara Trump, recently elected co-chair of the Republican National Committee , said the GOP must use "legal ballot harvesting" to stay competitive against Democrats ahead of November.  "We’ve been playing checkers, and the Democrats have been playing chess," Trump, daughter-in-law to former President Trump, said in a recent interview with the Washington Examiner. "Unfortunately, we don’t have one day of voting, we don’t have paper ballots, we don’t have voter ID everywhere. So we have to play the hand that we’re dealt."  She emphasized the importance of early voting and mail-in voting where possible. "That way, we have votes banked as we head into Election Day, and we’re not playing catchup on Nov. 5 with the Democrats," she said.  "We need to be doing legal ballot harvesting – something that has never been done by the RNC, but I can promise you will be a huge part of what we’re planning to do," Lara Trump told the Examiner. "A...

Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI : Looking back at “Deep Learning is Hitting a Wall”, a 2022 article ridiculed by many, and how it still seems that a paradigm shift is needed to attain AGI   —  Report card on an infamous paper.  —  Two years ago today I published my most infamous article:

Boone Ashworth / Wired : A look at AI-enabled dolls, such as those made by South Korea's Hyodol and Israel's Intuition Robotics, which offer companionship and assistance to older adults   —  Social robots for older adults might not be new, but now they're recording, listening—and talking back.

Washington Post : A look at the challenges of academic AI research, as costs to develop generative AI models grow rapidly and tech companies' salaries drain academia of talent   —  With eye-popping salaries and access to costly computing power, AI companies are draining academia of talent

House Speaker Mike Johnson blasted President Biden as an "embarrassment" for seemingly apologizing to Laken Riley's accused killer instead of to the slain student's family.  "The president is cowering to his base and showing deference to a man who deserves none. This man is an illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley. President Biden should be apologizing to Laken’s family. What an embarrassment," Johnson wrote on X on Sunday, responding to Biden's interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart that aired Saturday. At the urging of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Biden, during an off-script moment in his State of the Union address on Thursday, decried Riley's killing by "an illegal." The president later backtracked during his interview with Capehart, saying he should have instead used the word "undocumented" to describe Jose Ibarra, a Venezuelan national charged with murdering Riley, an Augusta University nursing st...